"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle." ~ Plato

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In Australia, I used to wear my aprons to death.

In Japan, it seemed as if aprons were part of women’s ‘haute-couture’ … a ‘housewife superstar’ in Japan, would have maybe up to 20 aprons, ranging from the work day variety, through to the top of the line: the beautiful white linen variety that covers her kimono on spec...

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,

But to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain,

But for the hear...

Many evenings, Ronald and I watch TV programs about brides, weddings, wedding dresses; as well as cake decorating, and many other cooking shows also.

It has struck me as very strange to be able to sit and watch such programs, mainly because for years in both Thailand and Japan, I had only really watched rented movies. Of course, in both Thailand and Japan, I ha...

Dietrich is around four years old. He is a pale ginger and white cat. He is Ronald and Jaysen's cat. He is supposed to be more Jaysen's cat, but what I see in the relationship between the three of them ... then he is more Ronald's cat.

Dietrich has spent most o...

' ... I am created to do something, or to be something for which no one else is created; I have a place in God's counsels, in God's world, which no one else has; whether I be rich or poor, despised or esteemed by others, God knows me and calls my name.

God has created me to do some definite service; He has committed some work to me which has not been committed to another. I have my mission - I never may know it in th...